3766

Wireshark is useful for learning exactly how private your network communications are. We are not allowed to install it on company computers at any time or any place ever.

3767

Why is that? A bunch of insecure stuff floating around and they don’t want anyone to see it?

We use it all the time for inspecting simulation traffic, and it’d be a huge pain if we couldn’t use it.

3768

Oh I know. Trying to code network hardware stacks without a sniffing program is like trying to tie your shoes with one finger. Like every network security department I’ve ever worked with, a heavy dose of paranoia seems like the primary qualification for a position there. But what can you do? I’ve given up fighting those battles long ago.

3769

It’s like some dude heard that hackers used Wireshark, so you gotta keep it off the network.

3770

Some helpful tips and tricks here.

3771

I guess he was supremely bored and thought himself above the meeting. What is more contemptuous than wanking insteading paying attention in a conference call with execs?

I also don’t know how you live it down. You have kids and grandkids. “Grampa, why did you masturbate on a conference call?” It’s horrifying to even think of being asked that question, or know they are thinking it.

3772

I’m pretty sure the kids and grandkids don’t want to think, hear, or talk about it either.

3773

I mean masturbation is good and right and everyone should do it regularly and I support normalizing discussion of it in public. (Somewhat similarly, I think menstruation should be normalized.) In that sense, maybe it provides a good opportunity to discuss it frankly with kids/grandkids. That said, part of that discussion has to include the notion that it’s not socially acceptable to do in public (in most circumstances.)

3774

When having that discussion they can use fun euphemisms like “Lubin’ the Toobin”

3775

I think it’s known as YouToobin.

3776
3777

What an idiotic take:

Yes, integrity and listening will help, but not with GOP bad faith and courts.

3778

I’m not sure Pete Wehner counts as a liberal, stupid or otherwise. He’s a former speechwriter for Reagan and both Bushes and has served as an executive director of various conservative think tanks.

3779

Fair enough.

3780

OK, here’s a dumb take

3781

Pretty sure there will be plenty of dumb shit to make fun of, without it being a constant threat to the world.

3782

Yes, we all know how hard it was for Jon Stewart to be funny during the Obama years. He had no material!

3783

I’m sure Cotton and his ilk will all retire to a foreign nation and Fox News will go off the air.

Oh wait.

3784


3785

Project Lincoln should…take the L?